People of color make up nearly half of the Nevada marijuana industry workforce, but the executive-level positions for cannabis companies skew significantly whiter, according to a new survey.
2021 Legislature
Lawmakers completed work Thursday on one of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s budget priorities with the Senate unanimously approving a measure that provides $50 million to help small businesses and nonprofits hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nevada paid out some $9 billion in unemployment benefits last year, roughly 50 percent more than in the 12 previous years combined.
The 81st season of that biennial production known as the Nevada Legislature kicked off last week like molasses being poured through a strainer in the dead of winter.
The days of herding relative strangers into Nevada high school gyms for an all-day democracy exercise peppered with puzzling math equations that can make or break political futures may soon be at an end.
If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.
The Nevada Assembly awoke to news that the body’s longtime Sergeant-at-Arms, Robin Bates, died of COVID-19 on Monday.
About one-third of Nevada’s corrections staff have been vaccinated for COVID-19, while just one inmate has received the vaccine, the department said Tuesday.
Only a day after its 81st regular session got underway, the Nevada Legislature gained two freshman Democrats: Fabian Donate and Tracy Marie Brown-May.
The Nevada Legislature convened for its 81st regular session Monday, kicking off its biennial 120-day session slowly in a legislative building still shuttered due to the COVID-19 threat.
Twelve newcomers to Carson City — two in the state Senate, 10 in the Assembly — will join the Nevada Legislature when it convenes on Feb. 1.
Nevada’s 2021 Legislature is set to begin Monday, with mostly virtual sessions because of the coronavirus.
Nineteen apply to replace former state Sen. Yvanna Cancela, while six vie for ex-Assemblyman Alexander Assefa’s open seat.
The Clark County Commission will appoint the successor to the Assembly District 42 seat, which covers about 68,000 people in the unincorporated Spring Valley.
Clark County is accepting applications through Jan. 19 for anyone interested in replacing former state Sen. Yvanna Cancela in the Legislature.